Marketplace Startups funded by Y Combinator (YC) in the San Francisco Bay Area 2024

Founded in August of 2008 and based in San Francisco, California, Airbnb is a trusted community marketplace for people to list, discover, and book unique accommodations around the world — online or from a mobile phone. Whether an apartment for a night, a castle for a week, or a villa for a month, Airbnb connects people to unique travel experiences, at any price point, in more than 33,000 cities and 192 countries. And with world-class customer service and a growing community of users, Airbnb is the easiest way for people to monetize their extra space and showcase it to an audience of millions. No global movement springs from individuals. It takes an entire team united behind something big. Together, we work hard, we laugh a lot, we brainstorm nonstop, we use hundreds of Post-Its a week, and we give the best high-fives in town. Headquartered in San Francisco, we have satellite offices in Dublin, London, Barcelona, Paris, Milan, Copenhagen, Berlin, Moscow, São Paolo, Sydney, and Singapore.

Founded in 2013, DoorDash is a San Francisco-based technology company passionate about transforming local businesses and dedicated to enabling new ways of working, earning, and living. Today, DoorDash connects customers with their favorite local and national restaurants in more than 600 cities across the United States and Canada. By building intelligent, last-mile delivery technology for local cities, DoorDash aims to connect people with the things they care about — one dash at a time. Read more at blog.doordash.com, and find us on Glassdoor.

Fivestars is a leading payment and customer loyalty platform for small local businesses. Our mission is to help businesses and communities thrive by turning every transaction into a relationship. Since launching in 2011, Fivestars has become a rewarding platform with 60 million users discovering and driving sales to 14,000+ small businesses. We help drive over $3 billion in local sales per year. More than 1 million people sign up monthly to support the local businesses that make our neighborhoods great. The company is backed by Lightspeed, DCM, Menlo Ventures, HarbourVest, and others. Together, let’s #LoveLocal. Visit www.fivestars.com for more information.

Faire is an innovative online marketplace that uses machine learning to match local retailers with the brands and products that uniquely fit their stores. We are using the power of technology to connect brands and independent retailers from all over the world, building a thriving community of hundreds of thousands of retailers, which has resulted in over 7 million new connections to date. Faire was founded on the belief that the future of retail is local. Our mission is to empower brands and retailers to strengthen the unique character of local communities. Our data-driven approach unburdens retailers from decades-old obstacles by helping find the right products for their shop. Plus, our straight-forward financial terms level the playing field by eliminating inventory risk and providing access to capital—key offerings previously only available to big box chains. For brands, our platform provides powerful sales, marketing, and analytics tools that simplify their business and allow them to focus on what they love: making great products.

Built by electrical engineers for electrical engineers, SnapMagic removes monotony so that engineers can do their best work. SnapMagic’s electronic component data is used by over 1.5 million engineers across the world’s largest organizations. Its new AI Copilot will change the way that every engineer designs electronics. Join at www.snapmagic.com.

Instawork is the on-demand staffing app for hourly workers and hospitality businesses. Our vision is to create economic opportunity for local businesses and professionals, globally. Workers need a better way to find great local jobs and businesses need a better way to find quality workers fast.

Outschool is an innovative education platform that offers a variety of engaging, small-group classes online. Unlike traditional classes, Outschool classes give kids the unique opportunity to explore their interests in-depth via interactive, live video by experienced, independent educators. When Outschool was founded in 2015, homeschoolers were the first to discover our classes, but it wasn’t long before kids in conventional schools began supplementing their education with fun and unique, interest-based classes. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Outschool became vital to families who wanted to keep kids learning, social, and pursuing their passions. Today, Outschool offers more than 140,000 live online classes to more than 1,000,000 learners in 183 countries worldwide.

10by10 is a marketplace to instantly match qualified candidates with companies by pooling candidates across recruitment agencies. Check out the testimonials on our website (www.10by10.io).

Skip the line, collect points and send gifts to friends 🎁 Snackpass is an app that makes ordering food more convenient, affordable and social.

Povio is helping founders turn visions into digital realities. With over **1,000 successful projects** under our belt and a robust team of over **200+ skilled professionals**, we are the powerhouse of innovation and design. We've partnered up with over **60 YC founders**, so we get the unique challenges you face and what it takes to build something great. A proud YC Winter 2014 alum, Povio has a legacy of startup success. Our portfolio spans diverse industries, offering bespoke solutions to giants like **Volkswagen**, rising stars like **Flexport**, and notable figures including **Serena Williams** and **Arnold Schwarzenegger.** **Why choose Povio for an extra hand with your project?** Our **400+ happy customers** and a **90% referral rate** speak volumes about our commitment to excellence. We make the software development and product design processes a seamless and delightful experience, with every project backed by top-tier managers and quality assurance analysts to ensure smooth and efficient delivery. Whether you're scaling up, launching new products, or optimizing current systems, povio.com is dedicated to propelling your growth.

Kinside powers bookings and payments for the $648B care economy. We’ve started with child care, a $136B category that despite being an essential and evergreen service, remains an undigitized space, driven mostly by cash.

Torch is a learning and development company that helps employers manage and measure employee growth at scale. Customers can draw from a pool of over 6000 mentors and coaches to pair with high performers and new managers at any layer of the organization. Torch was founded by a team of executive coaches and experienced psychologists who are passionate about helping all professionals perform at their highest level. Torch is on a mission to empower managers to thrive in high growth, high-performance cultures by building the self-awareness and skills required to manage and lead effectively.

Simplify is re-imagining the hiring and job-searching process. We're building tools to democratize the job search, no matter what your background is, where you live or what school you attended. Our first product is Copilot, and we're rapidly expanding on both the candidate and recruiter fronts. We've helped facilitate over 20m+ applications in just the last year, and are doubling down on our vision of building a common app and personal AI agent for your career.

Buy Me a Coffee is a fast and beautiful way to fund your creative work. Loved by over a million creators. ☕️

Roomstorm has developed the airline industry's first ever fully automated platform for providing hotel accommodations to distressed passengers during flight disruptions. This platform gives airlines the opportunity to directly connect to hotel inventory all over the world, or to give their teams an advanced web portal for the rapid processing of their passengers.

Shopping? Buy overseas. Traveling? Earn some extra cash. Let backpack help you save that high shipping cost or earn a little extra. Backpack is a peer-to-peer platform that connects travelers and shoppers to give people access to products across markets in all continents. Each backpacker, regardless of their role as a carrier or a shopper, follows a simple four-step process to either earn or save money from their backpacking experience. Travelers share their travel information and specify what kind of items they want to carry. Then they wait to get a "backpack request" and ask their price. Finally, they confirm the deal, buy the items, deliver them and earn money. Shoppers on the other hand, search items from their favorite websites and fill out the item description. Then they give their location and find a traveler coming to their city. Finally they "request backpack" and confirm the deal. Within days they can get the product and save money. backpack is founded with a vision to provide every citizen of the world with a choice; the choice of buying organic, authentic, and cost effective products with minimum friction. Whether the product is state-of-the-art consumer electronics, exotic pashmina from the south-east, or even medication that are rare in some parts of the world and not so rare in others - we promise ourselves to get those products to your doorsteps. We would like to reject the counterfeits, we would like to reject the almost-originals, most importantly, we would like to not pay the heavy expense incurred, most of which we deem to be superfluous. Help us make a better, more original globalized world.

Listia is a new kind of auction marketplace for giving and getting free stuff. Users list items as auctions, and other users bid on these items using credits instead of money. Credits are earned by signing up, giving away stuff, and being an active member.

Lollipuff is the only online auction site that pre-screens each and every item to guarantee the authenticity of its high-end, pre-owned designer apparel and accessories. Buyers can be confident they're getting the real deal, and sellers never have to worry about listing their luxury pieces alongside counterfeits. Combining the buyer security of an upscale boutique with the amazing prices of an online auction, Lollipuff is the go-to site for authentic, affordable and on-trend designer fashion.

Curtsy is [an app](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/curtsy-thrifting-delivered/id1029107786) that lets women buy and sell clothing, shoes, and accessories from their phones. Curtsy doesn't hold inventory; all orders ship directly from sellers to buyers. We make money by deducting a 20% fee from each sale. Curtsy's go-to-market strategy has been to focus on ~Gen Z women ages 15-30, who are underserved by the major players in the space like Poshmark and Ebay.

We’re on a mission to optimize the agricultural industry. When we started Bountiful in 2015, the grape error rate for predicting production was 30 percent. Why? We found that many farmers in the specialty crops space were still using traditional pencil-and-paper techniques to predict yield. These low-fidelity forecasting methods weren’t giving them a clear enough understanding of their production until it was too late, leading to waste and inefficiency throughout the supply chain. We saw a problem we wanted to solve. Today, Bountiful is using advanced data science to help farmers forecast more accurately, so they can make better decisions. In the last three years, we’ve combined the latest in machine learning with weather, satellite, geographic, and historical data. The result is a user-friendly platform that transforms volumes of complex agricultural information into simple, actionable insights farmers can use to run more economically and environmentally sustainable farms. More recently, we’re working to open the dialogue between buyers and sellers, remove uncertainty, and provide clarity to the supply chain to meet global food demand. Our ultimate goal is to close the agricultural margin of error. Not only will this make individual farms more efficient, profitable, and sustainable, but it will help optimize the global food supply chain. That means healthier people and a healthier planet.

At Yardbook we know how proud you are to own and operate your own landscaping business. We also know how challenging it can be to make sure everything is running smoothly. With this in mind we are pleased to offer our free software for running landscaping businesses! Yardbook is designed to provide an end-to-end solution in helping businesses with a multitude of roles such as creating schedules, estimates, completing invoices, payments, timesheets and so much more. Since we launched a little over a year ago, over 7,000 businesses in the US are now powered by Yardbook. During that time we have processed millions of dollars in invoices and helped owners, like you, organize their many administrative responsibilities. If you’re still using paper and pencil, or juggling between many different systems or spreadsheets in order to stay organized, give Yardbook a try today!

Eze is a B2B Marketplace that connects telecommunication and global electronic wholesalers allowing them to trade devices in wholesale quantities with real-time market data. Our aim is to formalize the fragmented and inefficient second-hand electronics market that had an estimated beachhead of $17 billion in 2016 which grew 50% from 2015. (Deloitte) Buyers and sellers use our platform to submit buy and sell requests. Eze automatically connects the two parties with compatible bids and executes the trade. The platform gives businesses real-time market prices and eliminates transaction risk by acting as an intermediary with a secure payment system.

Nash makes it easy for businesses to offer same-day delivery. We do this by building business workflows on top of delivery APIs (like Doordash, Uber, Skipcart). For example, a local dry-cleaning business can start offering pickup and dropoff service at a customer’s desired time without operating their own fleet.

Courtyard.io (YC W’22) is a marketplace and tokenization service that enables anyone to easily own and trade physical collectibles on the blockchain, unlocking greater transparency, liquidity, and a powerful new form of ownership. For vaulting, we’re partnered with Brink’s – one of the global leaders in security and logistics. We’re currently focused on graded cards, and offer a variety of slab Vending Machines along with curated mystery pack Drops to provide a fun, fair, and transparent way for enthusiasts and new collectors alike to grow their collections.

PROBLEM 😩 Zoom is great for adults, not ideal to engage an 8 year old online. SOLUTION 🔥 Koala Go, the award-winning interactive platform for online teaching businesses. Learn more at https://teachwithkoala.com/

Attain is a one-stop shop for convenience store owners to buy inventory across all their suppliers with higher reliability, price transparency, and product discovery. On average, store owners buy products from over 10-15 different suppliers each week. This painful process involves shopping in massive warehouses or spending hours working with wholesaler’s sales representatives (who sometimes don’t even show up). As a result, stores waste countless hours ordering products through extremely inefficient and tedious processes. These store owners are also severely impacted by inventory shortages and revenue loss which many times results in them downsizing their business or shutting them down completely. Attain solves this problem by providing a single app to purchase products across all of their suppliers, resulting in a one-stop shop for inventory. By aggregating inventory across a multitude of suppliers and wholesalers, Attain helps stores save significant time and money while allowing them to focus on what they do best - growing their businesses. Feel free to reach out at founders@joinattain.com!

Jamble is the new place to buy & sell secondhand fashion. We empower resellers with video & Live streaming tools to sell more effectively; and buyers with a unique compelling experience. Jamble is designed for the sustainable fashion community to engage, connect and inspire. We’re a mobile-first platform and launched on iOS! 👉 Check us out: https://apple.co/3Pfwran

Bunkerhill is a Sequoia/Felicis/YC-backed company whose goal is to increase the adoption of AI in healthcare, in order to help doctors catch deadly diseases earlier. Bunkerhill Health has built a consortium of research institutions (Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Harvard, etc.), who develop and validate AI algorithms seamlessly under our legal umbrella (less than one week of setup time for a new project when using the Bunkerhill consortium, versus a year or more for projects outside the consortium). Bunkerhill then manages the FDA clearance and commercial sales process for the algorithms that these institutions develop and validate with us. We’ve signed commercial contracts and deployed algorithms with the world’s leading health systems—UCSF, Mayo Clinic, Georgetown/MedStar, and several others. These algorithms help doctors identify patients earlier than has otherwise been possible, leading to better treatment outcomes (early clinical screening for heart disease, pancreatic cancer, etc.) We’re backed by world class investors: Sequoia, Felicis, SVAngel, Optum Ventures, Max Levchin (co-founder of PayPal and Affirm), YC, DCVC, and Pacific8.

Fleek is a B2B Wholesale Marketplace for second-hand fashion. Our buyers are vintage stores and online resellers; our suppliers are used clothing wholesalers, rag-houses, and donation centres.

Fountain’s all-in-one high volume hiring platform empowers the world’s leading enterprises to find the right people through smart, fast, and seamless recruiting. Candidates can apply anytime, anywhere in minutes, right from their phone. Automated and customizable processes streamline the candidate experience and save time for recruitment teams so they can scale with growing hiring needs. Advanced analytics provide end-to-end process visibility so managers can make swift, data-driven decisions. Throughout the candidate journey, the openly integrated platform enables companies to find, qualify and convert more applicants. Fountain’s global customers hire over 1.2 million workers annually in 78 countries.

Nabis is the #1 licensed cannabis wholesaling platform in California, supporting over 300 exclusive brands and supplying the entire network of state-licensed dispensaries with top-tier products. Nabis offers clients lightning-fast fulfillment, warehousing, payment processing, financing, data analytics, sales and marketing services to enable more brands and retailers to innovate, launch and scale.

✨ Hello! ✨ - StartPlaying.Games is the largest marketplace for finding game masters to host digital tabletop games like D&D. Today, more than 40 million people play D&D around the world and sales have grown by double-digit percentages for the last five consecutive years. But still finding people to host and play these games with is challenging. Most solutions involve digging through discord servers, reddit, and specialty forums. We built StartPlaying.Games to solve this problem.

At Shef, we’re rebuilding the food system from scratch, redefining who can participate in the food economy, and returning personal connection to the making, eating, and sharing of food. Shef is an online marketplace for local, food safety certified cooks to connect with customers in their community and earn a meaningful income selling homemade dishes. 75% of shefs are women and 80% are people of color. Together, they represent nearly 100 countries around the world, from Algeria to Korea, to India and Venezuela. Shefs are aunties and abuelas, immigrants and refugees, stay-at-home parents and restaurant dreamers. They’re passionate local cooks in your community who are doing what they love most — sharing their food and culture with you. Shef is also part of a growing movement to build a more inclusive food system for all. We are proud to support and champion advocacy efforts to expand home cooking laws across the country so that talented cooks everywhere can earn a meaningful income from their own kitchens. Join us: https://jobs.lever.co/shef

FundersClub discovers, funds, and supports the world's best technology startups. FundersClub created the first online venture capital platform and invests starting at Seed, following on through Growth. The portfolio includes Coinbase, Instacart, Webflow, GitLab, Flexport, Rippling, and other category-defining companies.

YouTeam has helped more than 60 YC startups hire top-notch engineers they couldn't find elsewhere. YouTeam connects you with select offshore developers seeking full-time contracts that aren't listed on any freelance portals or job boards. We are the only platform accessing this previously untapped talent pool, allowing us to select the "crème de la crème" of the talent.

Short Story is a style discovery platform to help petite women find clothes that fit. The average American woman is 5'4" and petite, yet this remains an enormously underserved segment. We’re a team of curators passionate about finding style, quality, and fit for petite women. Our mission is to remove the “ugh” from the shopping equation and support petite women in telling their stories, stylishly and confidently.

Videopixie is a marketplace for video production that allows users to have great video on the website, such as promotional videos and etc. Videopixie is a marketplace where you can hire the world’s best video professionals at a range of price points, to fit any budget. Retailers use Videopixie to make weekly product videos. Game companies use Videopixie to make trailers, using in-game footage, to air on national TV. Newly-weds use Videopixie to edit their five hours of ‘big-day’ footage into a five minute keepsake for life.

Tupelo is building the future of how traditional small businesses are bought and sold. We are the first small business M&A marketplace with modern integrations to make selling and buying a business quick and easy.

Labdoor is a marketplace where consumers research, find, and buy the best supplements. To verify the purity and potency of these products, Labdoor first buys and tests actual dietary supplement samples: • We send each product to an FDA-registered laboratory for a detailed chemical analysis. • Our scientists then collect the laboratory results and use internal algorithms to translate this data into simple grades and rankings for consumers. • Find a product you love? Click "buy it now" to activate in-app purchases.

Ever Loved is a one-stop-shop to help families plan better funerals with less stress. Ever Loved makes it easy to come up with the funds needed ($9,000 on average), find the best vendors and products, and communicate with the community of the deceased to bring people together, both online and offline.

Last-mile delivery for perishables.

Promoted.ai unifies search, native ads, and feed ranking for online marketplaces and scaled e-commerce apps to dramatically improve relevance (and revenue) using AI. We are a team of ex-Google, Meta, and Pinterest ads engineers. Our customers are publicly traded and late-stage marketplace companies like Eventbrite, Upwork, and Outschool. Our mission is to connect every buyer and seller.

At Response, we simplify how ops teams manage indirect spend—everything from office supplies to maintenance materials and packaging. Our platform streamlines procurement, cutting ordering and approval times by up to 92% and helping companies save up to 13% by centralizing purchases with their existing vendors.

We help to get rid of the things in your house that are no longer needed without spending any time or money. Our users bid on your items with virtual coins and can often find great products up to 95% off.

Kopa is the marketplace for monthly rentals and compatible housemates. We believe that exploration and community make people whole. Kopa exists to inspire people to get out of their comfort zones, to form lasting relationships, and to live more fulfilled lives. Kopa enables people to browse rentals, find roommates, and book and pay for spaces all online.

We partner with top Bay Area restaurants to bring you prepared meals that stay fresh all week. Meals are delivered weekly and ready in minutes. Since starting in 2020, we’ve delivered 100K+ orders and are backed by a16z, Y-Combinator, Goodwater, Decent Capital, and other top investors.

With Adni, healthcare workers can apply to jobs, buy their gear, store credentials, and trade advice all-in-one. Employers recruit healthcare talent from Adni’s app, and white-label Adni to power their own gamified clinician portal (including their jobs, candidate referrals, and loyalty perks) that improves time-to-hire and retention.

HOKALI is the marketplace for buying after-school programs and enrichment activities with high-quality, vetted vendors in the US. We simplify the process of booking, organizing, and managing after-school programs and camps for schools.

Rome is building a freight marketplace for truck drivers to find work, receive payments, and manage their business. Today, Rome helps 80+ drivers earn up to 40% more by accessing 10x more loads through scraping brokers/shippers. We’re looking to become the platform for all truck drivers and eventually own the layer between drivers and shippers.

Trusty is an agent-to-agent matchmaking network that searches every home, regardless of whether it's on the market. This means fresh inventory for buyers, private offers for homeowners, and happy real estate agents.

Phoenix Hydrogen is building the first commodity marketplace for hydrogen. This year, $9.5B in federal grants will fund the first hydrogen grids, but this ecosystem has no marketplace. We’re uniquely able to build one because we’re already working with big utilities on a fulfillment platform: a 1000'-tall underground warehouse for hydrogen.

PadMapper is a location-based apartment rental search engine with real-time filtering. PadMapper's entire browsing interface is taken up by a full-screen map, and listings are loaded as the user moves around the map. Zooming into the map loads more listings in that area, zooming out broadens the search. Listings are filtered out or allowed back into the results as filter sliders are moved. Apartment listings from hundreds of sites are included, including Craigslist, Apartments.com, ForRent.com, and Oodle.

Taking care of your car doesn’t need to be a painful or archaic experience. CarDash picks up your car from home or work, oversees the work, and returns your car to you. We also offer upfront and transparent pricing and serve as your advocate so you are never overcharged. We are on the verge of a major transformation in our relationship with the automobile. Connected cars, self-driving cars, mainstream electric vehicles, and new economic models of car ownership are all coming within the next decade. These could bring about a transportation revolution as disruptive as the adoption of the automobile itself. We don’t know how or when these changes will unfold, nor do we know which technologies will triumph. We do however know that all cars on the road will need to be serviced, regardless of who owns them, who drives them, or what powers them. By leveraging technology, logistical efficiency, and above all — superior service, CarDash aspires to become the service platform for the automotive industry of tomorrow.

Exec is a house cleaning service that users can book from their iPhone or the web in real-time.

Hingeto is a technology platform that enables fashion brands & influencers to sell past and future masterpieces with zero inventory risk. We are backed by Y Combinator (W16), Kapor Capital, Cross Culture Ventures, Precursor Ventures, Stanford University / StartX & several angels (including Andrew Iguodala)

About Teespring Millions of people use Teespring to turn their unique ideas into high-quality products. When you shop on Teespring, you’re supporting one of the independent creators in our community, as well as the causes they care about. Every product you’ll find here is made-to-order with satisfaction and quality guaranteed. That means that you get a custom product that was made for you. Headquartered in San Francisco, Teespring is venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Khosla Ventures, and Y Combinator. For more information visit www.Teespring.com.

Pulse is a startup building a crowdsourced knowledge marketplace for C-Suite Technology executives and the vendors that work with them. With nearly 15,000 C-Suite execs already on the Pulse platform and hundreds being added on a daily basis, Pulse is set to change how B2B decisions are made. Companies like Salesforce, Microsoft, Okta and Dialpad already rely on Pulse to turbocharge their strategy, content and marketing teams on a daily basis and as we build out our products, we are excited about what the future holds.

Homejoy believes everyone deserves a happy home. With just a few clicks, Homejoy will match you with an interviewed, background-checked and tested professional cleaner who maintains high customer ratings. Homejoy makes a sparkling home an affordable reality for many hard-working individuals. Founded by brother-sister duo Aaron and Adora Cheung, the Homejoy team includes long-time veterans of the hospitality industry and former owners of large cleaning companies. Head to homejoy.com now to view our range of programs and click through to a convenient, trusted, and affordable cleaning.

Get your next car hassle-free. We’re here to change the used car marketplace. No more headache of combing through web listings and car lots, no more haggling with a dealership. We help you find the best car at the best price, period. Tell us what car you’re looking for, and we’ll find you the best pre-owned vehicle for the lowest possible price. Once we’ve landed your car, we’ll inspect it, detail it, and deliver it to you. We pride ourselves on the very best quality, and back it with a 7-day money-back guarantee. Let us know what you're looking for and we'll bring you a great car.

Layer By Layer is an online marketplace for the buying, selling, and sharing of printable 3D designs. We're going to make it possible to get the things you need and want by printing them yourself, from your own home. We want to allow anyone, technologist or amateur, to be able to use a personal 3D printer - so we decided to create an easy way for people to find and print great products.

Boostable makes advertising easy for sellers and brands on marketplaces. We grow marketplaces by helping their sellers advertise their listings and gather insights. Boostable is a YCombinator company based in San Francisco and funded by SVAngel, 500 Startups and others.

Creative Market is a marketplace for ready-to-use design assets, including fonts, graphics, templates, add-ons, photos, and themes, from independent creators around the world.

OrderAhead is a mobile ordering and payments company that enables millions of users to order pickup from thousands of local merchants.

Vayable makes it easy to discover and book unique experiences and activities worldwide offered by independent companies and local experts. What do you want to do when you get there? Let us know! it's easy to list and discover new trips! Just go to http://vayable.com.

VaycayHero takes the hassle out of booking vacation rentals. All rentals are verified, and 100% accurate, and calendars and pricing are automatically updated. This means, no surprises, ever. Search and book online hassle-free, or chat with a booking concierge if you need help. VaycayHero has vacation rentals in major vacation destinations in the US and Mexico. It built a travel hub platform to distribute the rentals to multiple channels including Vaycayhero.com and powered many marketplaces to provide a hassle-free booking experience.

VIDA is the story of the rich, beautiful, interconnected world in which we live. It is the story of contemporary life and of mindful, global citizenship. VIDA is a collaboration amongst global citizens - from a designer in Milan, to a producer in Karachi, and a consumer in San Francisco – we are a global partnership of co-creators. VIDA presents an alternative to the homogeneous, disposable products that increasingly dominate retail. We produce only that which is purchased, bringing into the world only items that are wanted. We are using innovations in design and technology to make quality accessible again. We produce with the highest ethical standards, respecting the makers of the products we bring into our lives. We believe beautiful products should create beauty every step of the way.

Nasdisc is a marketplace for the $4B worth of records purchased every year. The vinyl market has seen exponential growth in the past decade - the first 6 months of this year has already seen an increase of 108% in sales. Our platform takes a 12% cut, making this a $400mm opportunity that is more than doubling every year. Pressing plants are backed up years out, bots buy limited releases in seconds, and record prices are skyrocketing in both retail and aftermarket sales. Despite this growth, the only dedicated marketplace is difficult to use, doesn’t process transactions, yet facilitates over $600mm in vinyl exchanges per year. This is why I finally decided to quit my job at Google and recruit my best friends from college to fix it. We’re all software engineers and have been passionate about music and vinyl since we were kids, and have $50k in records ourselves. We started building a marketplace in July and launched our website 4 weeks ago. We now have $1k / week in sales, and $50k in listings.